Let The Wild Rumpus Start!

With such an iconic and well loved book this week felt a bit intimidating and like we really had to do the story justice. This was the first time that some of these children heard ‘Where the Wild Things Are’All of the children listened really intently to the story as I felt that it was important for them to hear the whole story before we started to play with it…We put some wild things face paints on along with our bobble hatsPracticed our ‘horrible roars’ and ‘horrible gnashing teeth’ and went outside.It was really great to run around and be wild with the children and nice to be able to make one of the stories come to life outside. Everyone really entered into being wild things.With the children in the Sunshine room, we focused more on the listening to the story, I had also taken one of the small cameras as they had responded so well to it a few weeks ago.It was brilliant to see the small group that we had so interested in the story, as we went through the picture section in the middle, Shannon pointed out each of the ‘wild things’ as we turned every page.I was also really pleased to see that, after last weeks session with the torches that the Sunshine room now have a set of rechargeable torches for the children to explore with.

We were joined this week by ‘Wild Thing’ Emily Magorrian who was a fantastic, mischievous addition to our team of adventurers!